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March 5th:


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March 19th update:

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pw20 said:
No by 2000 Eatons was long gone too. Eatons opened as Horizons (their discount value chain) when the centre opened. It opened on the second (third floor) where Toys R Us and Goodlife and the Pickle Barrel currently are. It had that entire floor. This is why there is that lone escalator near the Metro that goes only one way (up). This was the entrance to Eatons. The eastern half of that floor (where the steps to Indigo are and the movie theatre ticking concession) didn't exist.

Indigo was purpose built along with the movie theatre in... 1998/1999 (approx), creating a new mall corridor running N/S from Rexall to Urban Outfitters (at the time HMV). I think the Eatons was one of the original reasons the mall's layout has never really quite worked.

This is why I call the place the Frankenstein Mall. You have the 1970's brutalism, with the late 90's PoMo futurism, coupled with the 2015 green glass box.

As for the square - I personally think it was irredeemable (mostly due to weather and wind - it was probably the windiest place in the city).
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I think the Eaton's would have only covered the Toys R Us and Goodlife. I believe that the Pickle Barrel space was once The Keg, but this was before The Keg went upscale. I think The Keg might have moved out of there before Eaton's closed.

pw20, there used to be a restaurant called Pat & Mario's and a few stores on a level that was higher than the Eaton's/Keg floor. Do you remember this and, if so, where were they located in the mall?
 
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This morning, different angle

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Wow, don't really know what to think of this yet. Hopefully a case of it coming together a bit better when it is complete. Currently there is too much going on for my tastes, bit overwhelming in its modernity and multiple styles.
 
Pickle Barrel! Pickle Barrel! Pickle Barrel!

They sure are building a nice new mall for the Pickle Barrel.

Pickle Barrel Mall.
 
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Urban-Affair said:
Wow, don't really know what to think of this yet.
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Really??

It's just what it looks like.....an unholy mess.

The only thing that can be done is treat it like a Dundas Square and have all kinds of flashing lights/screens/adverts to distract you from the...um..."architecture". I find it strange that Silvercity installed those big elaborate neon sculptures, and don't turn them on (although I seem to recall people complaining way back when they installed them).
 
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